DS just returned from the Engineering camp at Alabama. Freshly dunked in the Crimson Kool-Aid. :)) On the way home I asked him how he felt about his list of colleges now and he said that all the others are inferior. lol
He’s working on submitting the scholarship app for Bama. Then the goal is to submit Texas Tech by the end of the week. He’s assured admission at Tech.
He has a part time job this summer and band leaders start band camp today so he is already ramping up in activity. Goal is 1 app a week. Also starting with an ACT tutor tomorrow to see if we can get his already decent score up a little bit for the Bama scholarships. He’s about to be busy, busy! But the girlfriend keeps getting the attention. sigh
@DavidPuddy For DS he has felt that way ever since he begrudgingly toured last summer and then fell in love with the school much to everyone’s surprise. He likes their engineering program, he likes the co-op program, the options for stem-to-MBA and 5th year masters, the generous AP credits, the campus is beautiful and he feels like it really fits him. He hasn’t felt that way about other schools we have toured. I don’t know that I have one tangible thing to point to. They just seem to do everything well. If you haven’t toured there it is hard to explain. Its kind of like going to Disney - everything is done well and everything is clean and neat.
We will be touring Texas Tech next month. But he isn’t very enthusiastic. I’m hoping they win him over at least a little bit. Financially its the best offer right now.
That is exactly where I’m at with this. Logically I know I’ve spent a crazy amount of time searching over the last year + and I’ve turned over every rock, driven this bus down every winding road in search of the mythical perfect school. But still I worry it’s still out there and I’ve missed it somehow. I have to accept that though there are thousands of schools out there, there is no “perfect” school, at least not for my D. There are several that come real close though. So now that she’s got the keys to the bus she’ll have to decide which have the best set of “pros” with the most acceptable list of “cons”.
On the plus side she does seem to have taken those keys and is tentatively doing a bit of driving. She’s assigned herself the task of reviewing schools on the list this week, and also looking over CTCL schools in general as they are hosting an info session in our area soon and we’re planning to go. She already has a few of those schools on her list so she feels like it’s worth it to see if there are any other good candidates there. :-bd
After a bunch of travel, we are back and ready to think about college. DD is taking a college essay seminar in the evenings, and is hoping to get all of her IB summer assignments done this week. She has a couple of school visits coming up too. A grandparent is taking her since we are short on vacation time. I’m really sorry to miss seeing a couple of these schools, but I hope DD will get good enough info to pare down her list.
Good evening everyone! I took a look at the CSS profile tonight (Furman requires it). Ugh. Not looking forward to it. However, it DOES provide a more complete financial picture. I guess Furman will be able to honestly say whether they can meet financial needs, after all of that info.
A fat envelope from UNM arrived today, and S has officially been accepted. We called him to the living room so he could open it in front of us, then he read it aloud while we applauded.
He applied July 3rd and the acceptance letter was dated July 12.
@HeliMom74 I think so. He applied to his second choice, Texas Tech, but only because I leaned on him so he’d have options if something went pear-shaped or he changed his mind. There’s also still a chance that his GF will ask him to apply to some of her schools, but at least for now, they’re both planning to go to UNM.
As far as he’s concerned, he’s one-and-done.
Now we wait to see if he makes NMF, and whether UNM will allow him to take a gap year.
O.K. - so I think I have a handle on the student health care issue now. I looked at Stanford (for no particular reason) as an example.
The student (or the parents) pay a (usually mandatory) student health fee ($210 per quarter at Stanford) and that gains the student access to the campus health clinic for any medical appointments or urgent care needs that arise. And then, if they are given a prescription or need an immunization or something, they can use our regular family health insurance to go to an off-campus drug-store, clinic, or doctor’s office to take care of that and any other specialty-type consultations & vision/dental appointments that the on-campus health clinic doesn’t cover.
And, like someone already mentioned, if they leave the country for study abroad or whatever, then a part of that travel package more than likely contains some kind of travel insurance for the duration of the trip/time away.
If the family doesn’t have a health insurance policy, then they would probably have to purchase one either on their own or through the campus.
For anyone more experienced in this area, feel free to correct this info or add anything that I missed.
